I have players on my team who nearly never foul, and also players who are routinely in foul trouble. Is this caused by their skill levels or those of their opponents?
Likely a combination of both. It is, of course, hard to drafw definitive conclusions without knowing the skills of the opponents..
This was among the types fo information my brother and I had hoped to glean from playing scrimmages against one another most of last season. We'd email each other the skills of our respective players every week, so we can keep up with what type of stats our players were playing against, and trying to figure out who was succeeding and why.
The results at this point are pretty inconclusive, as we would mix up offensive and defensive patterns as well, so a player who scored a heap of points playing in one offensive tactic may struggle to score in another tactic, etc.
Once I'm out of the cup this season, we'll try to do it again and see if we can't get some more conclusive results by playing the same offense & defense every week.